Autonomous Vehicle Retrofit Technician

ASHFORD CONNEX, LLC; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

ASHFORD CONNEX, LLC in Austin, TX is seeking a Vehicle Integration Technician to retrofit autonomous systems on industrial vehicles. You will install a full hardware stack across electrical, mechanical, and CAN subsystems on forklifts, loaders, and diggers; plan to retrofit 200+ platforms over four years and help write the deployment playbook for the US.

The role requires 3–8 years of hands-on experience, a Bachelor's degree, and willingness to travel 25% to customer sites.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 3–8 years of experience in related fields.
• Experience retrofit kits into autonomous machines.
• Willingness to travel to customer sites (25%).

Responsibilities

• Adapt platform hardware to fit each machine model.
• Build and install wiring harnesses, sensors and actuators.
• Visit customer sites to scope retrofit needs and perform installation.
• Troubleshoot integration across electrical, mechanical and software layers.
• Record issues and improve Vehicle Adapter Kits; ECU programming is a plus.

Skills

Electrical wiring

Mechanical assembly

CAN/J1939

Robotics integration

Hands-on builder

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

ECU programming

Job description

ASHFORD CONNEX, LLC in Austin, TX is seeking a Vehicle Integration Technician to retrofit autonomous systems on industrial vehicles. You will install a full hardware stack across electrical, mechanical, and CAN subsystems on forklifts, loaders, and diggers; plan to retrofit 200+ platforms over four years and help write the deployment playbook for the US.

The role requires 3–8 years of hands-on experience, a Bachelor's degree, and willingness to travel 25% to customer sites.